Community Education Programs

To Help You Get – and Stay – Heart-Healthy, the Cardiovascular Center at Holy Redeemer is your partner in heart health, and we offer a number of community education programs to help you live a healthier life. Call 1-800-818-4747 to find out which classes are currently scheduled or click on the Community Education Calendar button at the bottom of the page.

Heart Disease and Menopause
Find out more about what you can do to stay heart healthy after menopause and at any stage of life.

Heart Smart: Healthy Eating for a Healthy Heart
A registered dietitian discusses low-fat cooking methods and provides alternative ingredient substitutions. Also learn how to decrease cholesterol and saturated fat in your diet. Come and learn some of the great low-fat and low-cholesterol samples.

The Relationship of Exercise to Heart Disease
Join the manager of the Health & Fitness Center as he discusses the interpretation of the surgeon general’s report of lack of exercise.

Are You at Risk for Heart Disease?
Learn the latest information on risk factors, diagnosis and treatment of heart disease so that you can better defend yourself against America’s number one killer.

Prevention and Treatment Through Nutrition and Exercise
Learn lifestyle changes you can make changing your diet to starting an exercise program that can help you prevent heart disease, or get you back on the road to recovery after a cardiac episode.

Stress Management and Heart Disease
What affect does how well we deal with our stress have on our health? Learn the impact of stress on heart disease and heart-healthy ways to handle it that can possibly save your life.

Women and Heart Disease
Take time to pay attention to your heart health. Discussion will include how and why heart problems manifest in women, as well as strategies to help reduce risk factors.

Heart Healthy Facts for Seniors
Join us for this program, which will address cardiovascular and stroke-related issues.

Resistance Training for Seniors
Join a Holy Redeemer exercise physiologist to learn how to establish and maintain agility, strength and endurance throughout your life.

Survival of the Fittest
Join an exercise physiologist for this interactive seminar and exercise demonstration, using equipment found around the home including chairs and steps. Find out how you can condition yourself at any age.

Stress and Your Heart
Stress is bad for your heart. Keep your blood pressure down. Cope more effectively with life’s everyday uncertainty and stress.

Mending a Broken Heart
Join a cardiac nurse who will discuss the importance of exercise for people with risk factors like hypertension, diabetes, heart disease and abnormal cholesterol levels, and how cardiac rehab can add years to your life after a heart attack.

Blood Pressure Rising …and How to Stop It
Don’t let hypertension sneak up on you! This discussion will include information about hyper-tension the causes treatments and the effect this disease can have on quality of life.

Supermarket Savant
Join a registered dietitian for this informative supermarket series, which includes: Meat, Fish, Dairy, Produce, Breads Cereals, Pasta, Snacks and Beverages aisles. Learn how to read food labels and do some food shopping. Don’t miss this fun tour, registration limited.

Freedom from Smoking
Stop smoking with help from the cardiac rehabilitation nurse at Holy Redeemer. In this course designed by the American Lung Association, learn how to use the “buddy system,” stress and weight management strategies, exercise, and assertive communication skills to kick the smoking habit.

Healthy Heart Connection
A Holy Redeemer dietitian and cardiac rehab nurse discuss heart health and offer guidance on reducing dietary fat and cholesterol in this bi-monthly program. Pick up tips on starting a low-fat diet, grocery shopping and reading food labels, dining out healthfully and modifying recipes.

Trim-a-Weigh
This clinical weight loss program incorporates behavior modification, exercise at the Health & Fitness Center (on your own schedule), and meal plans. Join this 10-week program for a lifetime of results.

Personal Training at Holy Redeemer Health & Fitness Center
Find out what a personal trainer can do for you, helping to motivate you to attain your health and fitness goals, and to organize and follow your own personal training program.

This Weight’s for You – Weight Management for Women
This Weight’s for You is a unique program for women of all ages who want to reduce or maintain their weight, feel better and stay healthy. What makes this 9-week program different from others is MedGem, a device for determining your baseline metabolic rate. With that measurement, a registered dietitian helps you determine the ideal number of calories you should consume each day based on your individual metabolism. From there, you can establish a realistic weight goal and timeframe that takes your body chemistry into account. The result is a weight management plan that is safe, clinically sound and effective.

Low Impact Aerobics
Tai Chi
Pilates